Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:36:02 +1000 (EST) From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au Subject: Window Maker crashing To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20020906073553.5857C5AA7@ivory.research.canon.com.au> Tracked down what seemed to be a spreading problem of unchanged machines getting crashes like this from Window Maker in X: cpp: not found wmaker error: error reading from file '/home/luke/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu': No error wmaker warning: could not load domain WMRootMenu from user defaults database wmaker error: error reading from file '/home/luke/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState': No error wmaker fatal error: got signal 11 waiting for X server to shut down Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0041 E424 eax=00000500 ebx=100393A0 ecx=FFFFFFEF edx=00000000 esi=00000011 edi=00000000 ebp=0022E2D0 esp=0022E298 program=C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xterm.exe cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 ss=0023 Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0022E2D0 0041E424 (100393A0, 00000000, 00000000, 00000001) 0022E350 0041E2BF (100393A0, 0022E3A0, 00000353, 0000003A) 0022E370 00409D80 (10039320, 0022E3A0, 00000000, 0000000A) 0022E3D0 00415E1C (10037008, 00600013, 0022E420, 00413058) 0022E410 0041C031 (10039320, 00000000, 00000001, 0040B37A) 0022E520 0040B4B3 (10039320, 0022E55C, 0022E570, 00492143) 0022E5B0 0047AF03 (10039320, 0060000E, 1003AC70, 00000000) 0022E640 0047B125 (1003AC70, 00438110, 0022E680, 0047B211) 0022E680 0047B21A (1003AC70, 1021DB18, 0022FDE0, 00429841) 0022E6B0 0040A1FB (61683D90, 100393A0, 00428586, 00000001) 0022FDE0 0042985D (00000000, 00000000, 00499FAC, 77E79D6A) 0022FEB0 00428D86 (00000000, 61683D90, 10030278, 77E61A53) 0022FF00 61005B8E (000007FC, FFFFFFFE, 000007DC, 610C28D0) 0022FF60 61005E2C (00000000, 00000000, 00000007, EEDD9C94) 0022FF90 00499AFB (004285B0, 00000001, 00000000, 805B406F) 0022FFC0 0040103D (00440042, 7FFDEC00, 7FFDF000, EEDD9CF4) End of stack trace (more stack frames may be present) The problem is that it's sensitive to the PATH used when running. I'd put /usr/X11R6/bin first in the PATH (in startx.bat) before calling startx, and that lead to WM crashing. So, the answer is not to do that. :-) luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/